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Patented Nov. 4, 1941 om snr Roger Connor and Donald A. Nevin, Athens, '0hio,

assignors to The McBee Ohio, a corporation o! Ohio Company, Athens,

Application September 13, 1940, Serial No. 356,632

2 Claims.

Our invention relates to the manual sorting of cards so as to bring them into numerical sequence orto select a certain number of cards of a particular classification. Sorting of this kind is described in Patent No. 1,544,172 dated June 30, 1925 issued to Alfred Per This application is a continuation in part of application Serial Number 321,826 filed March 2, 1940.

In this patent the cards are punched with a plurality of perforations adjacent their edge. The cards are then classified by notching or slotting the cards by cutting away the material between a perforation and the edge of the card, thus forming a pattern of notches relating to a single classification.

support or holder comprises a four sided base (ci. 12a-16.1)

Fig. 9 is a fragmentary detail view of the sliding bottom.

Similar reference numerals refer to similar parts throughout the entire specification.

As shown in the drawings our improved card preferably formed with a top l, and four depending side walls 2. Angle irons 3, and 6, are welded or otherwise secured to two of the side walls. Feet 5 are fastened to the angle' irons 2 and 3, adjacent the corners of the base. These feet should be made of rubber in order not to scratch a desk top or table on which the sorting is taking place.

The cards thus notched or slotted canthen be sorted by means of a into numerical or other needle or sorting device sequence.

, In sorting the cards it is customary to grasp.

a number of cards of convenient size to hold in the hand, even the edges on a table 'or other to limit the movement convenient fiat surface and then pass the sorting needle through the desired perforations or noto-hes. If the cards get out of alinement`it is diflicult to pass the needle through the desired perforations.

Our invention has for its principal object to provide a card support or holder which will have walls against which the cards may be' stacked to even their edges and then hold them in correct alinement.

A further object is to provide a card support or holder with a master plate or template one or more edges of which are notched or slotted to register with the perforations adjacent the edge or edges of the cards.

Or means of accomplishing the foregoing objects may be more readily understood by having reference to the accompanying drawings, which are hereunto annexed and are a part of this specidation in which:

Eig. 1 is an isometric our improved support of cards;

Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view of our improvement; l

Fig. 3 is a side elevation showing the manner of using the master plate;

Fig. 4 is a modied form of construction showing the master plate in position;

Fig. 5 is a modiiied shown in Fig, 4' with the master plate omitted;

Fig. 6 shows a modied form:

Fig. 7 isa detail view of said form; Fig. 8 is a sectional detailview; and

.the edges and thus Attached to the top l of the base by spot welding or in any -other desired manner is a plate formed by a horizontal portion 6, andan upright or vertical portion 7.

of the stack or cards from left to right when they are placed on the card support or holder, for the purpose of evening alining the perforations punched in the cards. l

A front plate 8, is attached to one of the down' wardly depending walls 2, of the card support by spot welding or in any other desired manner. This plate 8, should be'spaced from the card support. As illustrated, this is accomplished by` means of a strip of metal 9, which preferably extends inwardly about the height of the side wall 2, leaving a space l0. between the plate 0,

and the wall 2. The'purpose of this space is to master plate Il, in

the stack of cards to rest on the desk or table tOp.

connected walls i8 and I9. On the front wall I8 is-cast or formed a shoulder 2li, in which a form of the construction slot 2i may be milled. In this form the mastei .plate Il, should be formed with an offset portion 22,- in order to present a ush surface to the stack of cards. Fig. 5 showsanother form inv I which thewalls i8 and I9' are connected by a This plate furnishes a stop shown a modiiied form ci In this form the holder consists of two Y under side 23 of this bottom plate is a corrugatedl piece or metal 30, clearly seenin Fig. 9, having a number of ridges 32, and grooves 34. This may be spot welded to the bottom or attached in any other suitable or convenient manner.

The sides 36 of the card support are each formed with an overhanging shoulder 38,`which allow the bottom plate 24 to t flush when in the up position. When the bottom plate 24 is in place beneath the cards, it will be in the up position shown in Fig-8 in full lines. Further movement will cause/che ridges 32 of the corrugated metal piece 30 to drop into grooves 4 formed in a corresponding piece of metal 42, fastened to the bottom of the card support.

This form of our invention is used as follows: When the stack of cards is placed in the support, with the sliding bottom 24, in the up position where it is resting on the two plates 30 and 42, by pushing the bottom 24 in, it will drop when the ridges 32 register with the grooves 40, and the drop will cause the selected cards to fall. It may also be used with a card having certain aligned perforations connected by slots. In such a case, the cards will drop just the length of the two-hole slot and a sorting needle can be inserted to remove from the top, such cards as have not fallen.

When the operator is ready to begin the sorting operation a master plate Il, which spond in size to the cards which are to be sorted, is inserted in the space l0, with one of the notched edges l2, or I3 uppermost according to which the edges of the cards are to be used in sorting, the slot I6 or l1 according to the arrangement o! the cards being at the left.

.A A stack of cards is grasped in the leithand must COTI'E- and retained in that position while placing them upon the card support or holder. They are then moved toward the right until all the cards are stopped by the side plate -1, the operators thumb passing into the slot I6 or l1, which is provided for that purpose. The operator may then rest the needle in the notch of the master plate which is in register with the desired perforation and continue as taught by the said Perkins Patent No. 1,544,172. Substantially the same steps are taken with the modified forms, Figs. 4 and 5, except that instead o! placing the stack of cards on the top l of the base. the operator places them on the table and moves them until "they abut the wall 'I3 or I9', and the offset portion 22, of the master plate l I, inserted in the slot 2 l. Other than this the procedure is the same and the sort is carried out in the same manner.

"in said cards, there being Having described our invention what we regard as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. In a device for sorting cards, a ilat base, upwardly extending side walls on only two adjoining sides of said base, one of said walls being spaced from the base and a single master plate removably mounted in said space, one or more edges of which plate are provided with notches which are ladapted to register with perforations thumb slots formed in the unnotched edges of said plate.

2. In a device for sorting cards, a upwardly extending joining sides of said flat base,

base, one of said walls being spaced from the base and a single rectangularA master plate removably mounted in said space, two adjacent edges of which plate are provided with notches which are adapted to register with perforations inl said ca rds, there being thumb slots formed in the two adjacent unnotched edges oi said plate,

ROGER CONNOR.

DONALD A. NEVIN.

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